( One big question: If Colmer was to be purged, what should the House do about the other three senior Mississippians who supported the maverick electors??

Although some procedures and institutions had been fixed, for example by the Golden Bull of 1356, the rules of how the king, the electors, and the other dukes should cooperate in the Empire much depended on the personality of the respective king.

For the first time, the assembly of the electors and other dukes was now called the Imperial Diet ( German Reichstag ) ( to be joined by the Imperial Free Cities later ).

Only six of the electors, however, had the right to sit at ordinary meetings: " The King of Bohemia, who was in fact not a prince of the Empire but a neighbouring and independent monarch, might vote at an imperial election, but was allowed on no other occasion to meddle in the affairs of the Empire.

In 1742, the electors became entitled to the superlative Durchläuchtigste ( Most Serene Highness ), while other princes were promoted to Durchlaucht.

As rulers of States of the Empire, the electors enjoyed all the privileges of the other princes, including the right to enter into alliances, autonomy in relation to dynastic affairs and precedence over other subjects.

For instance, electors were granted a monopoly over all mines of gold, silver, and other metals within their territories, to tax Jews, to collect tolls, and to mint money ; these powers belonged to the Emperor in the other territories, and princes who wrongly assumed them could be deprived of their status.

The electors, like the other princes ruling States of the Empire, were members of the Reichstag, which was divided into three collegia: the Council of Electors, the Council of Princes, and the Council of Cities.

In addition to being members of the Council of Electors, several lay electors were therefore members of the Council of Princes as well by virtue of other territories they possessed.

The capitulation may be described as a contract between the princes and the king, the latter conceding rights and powers to the electors and other princes.

With the consent of the other electors, Ottokar's dissent was neglected, and by the admission of Duke Henry XIII of Lower Bavaria, Rudolph gained all seven votes.

Each state has a number of electors equal to its total Congressional representation ( in both houses ), with the non-state District of Columbia receiving three electors and other non-state territories having no electors.

This disenfranchisement may be a deliberate facet of electoral law, a consequence of a failure to consider the needs of anyone other than non-disabled electors, or an ongoing failure to respond to identified shortcomings in provision.

Although the United States Constitution refers to " Electors " and " electors ", the name " Electoral College " — or any other name — is never used to describe the electors collectively.

The other electors extracted similar concessions from Adolf, but only after the election.

A unique case was the Golden Bull of 1356 ( issued by Charles IV, the Holy Roman Emperor and King of Bohemia ), recognizing the Margrave of Brandenburg as an elector of the Holy Roman Empire, membership of the highest college within the Imperial diet carrying the politically significant privilege of being the sole electors of the non-hereditary Emperor, which was previously de facto restricted to dukes and three prince-archbishops ( Cologne, Mainz and Trier ); other non-ducal lay members would be the King of Bohemia and the Palatine of the Rhenish Electorate of the Palatinate.

All U. S. States – other than Maine and Nebraska – use a winner-take-all form of simple plurality, first-past-the-post voting to determine the electors appointed to the Electoral College.

He seems indeed himself to have been at last convinced of the necessity in English political life of party government, for though in his cautions to electors he warns them against men " tied to a party ," yet in his last words he declares: If there are two parties a man ought to adhere to that which he disliked least though in the whole he doth not approve it ; for whilst he doth not list himself in one or the other party, he is looked upon as such a straggler that he is fallen upon by both.

Like many other manifestos in nineteenth-century British politics, it was formally an address to the electors of the leader's own constituency, but reproduced widely.

He has frequently refused to move from white lunch counters, refused to obey local laws which he considers unjust, while in other cases he has appealed to federal laws.

Gen. Felix Huston, challenging each other for the command of the Texas Army ; Johnston refused to fire on Huston and lost the position after he was wounded in the pelvis.

Moreover, after his wife's death in 1349, Peter refused the idea of marrying anyone other than Inês herself.

After being refused a shelter by other Protestant cities, he directed his steps towards Poland, at that time the most tolerant state in Europe.

At times, Charlton was not on speaking terms with United's other superstars George Best and Denis Law, and Best refused to play in Charlton's testimonial match against Celtic, saying that " to do so would be hypocritical ".

A Paramount employee told biographer Orrin Keepnews that Jefferson was a womanizing sloppy drunk ; on the other hand, Jefferson's neighbor in Chicago, Romeo Nelson, reports him as being " warm and cordial ," and singer Rube Lacy states that Jefferson always refused to play on a Sunday, " even if you give me two hundred.

The British Museum has refused to return these artefacts, stating that the " restitutionist premise, that whatever was made in a country must return to an original geographical site, would empty both the British Museum and the other great museums of the world ".

From the very beginning Mayotte refused to join the new republic and aligned itself even more firmly to the French Republic, but the other islands remained committed to independence.

The protests hurt Columbia financially as many potential students chose to attend other universities and some alumni refused to donate money to the school.

In the late 1920s Alston joined Bearden and other black artists who refused to exhibit in William E. Harmon Foundation shows, which featured all-black artists in their traveling exhibits.

Trumbo and the other nine refused to give information.

They were joined by 4 MEPs from the left-wing Danish Eurosceptic People's Movement against the EU, while the other regionalist MEPs, including those of the SDLP, the SVP, Batasuna and the Convergence and Union of Catalonia ( CiU ) refused to join.

Esther sent clean clothes to him, but he refused them, explaining that deliverance for the Jews would come from some other place, but that Esther would be killed if she did not do what she could to stop this genocide — by talking to the king.

Sullivan was angered by this so greatly that he refused to do a final show, although he remained with the network in various other capacities and hosted a 25th anniversary special in 1973.

However, RCA refused to pay him royalties and encouraged other television makers not to pay them either.

Selznick's friendship with Cukor had crumbled slightly when the director refused other assignments, including A Star is Born ( 1937 ) and Intermezzo ( 1939 ).

The other gods begged Hephaestus to return to Olympus to let her go, but he repeatedly refused.

Following his Washington visit Holt went on to London and in a speech there given on 7 July he was sharply critical of the UK, France and other U. S. allies that had refused to commit troops to the Vietnam War.

Saint Thomas Aquinas, the greatest of the medieval scholastics, refused to admit the Immaculate Conception, on the ground that, unless the Blessed Virgin had at one time or other been one of the sinful, she could not justly be said to have been redeemed by Christ.

He refused even to consider the idea ( which some of the other Nazi leaders were open to, though only on pragmatic grounds as a way of encouraging Jewish emigration ) that German Jews be allowed to take their personal possessions with them when they left Germany.

In return, the Germans received little thanks from the Japanese, who refused to allow any new German businesses to be set up in the part of China they had occupied, and continued with their policy of attempting to exclude all existing German ( together with all other Western ) businesses from Japanese-occupied China.

As part of the fierce diplomatic competition in Ankara in the spring and summer of 1939 between von Papen on the one hand, and on the other the French Ambassador, René Massigli, and the British Ambassador, Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen, to win the allegiance of Turkey to either the Axis or the Allies, Ribbentrop suffered a major reversal in July 1939 when Massigli was able to arrange for major French arms shipments to Turkey on credit, to replace the weapons the Germans refused to deliver to the Turks.

Raymond was the wealthier and more powerful of the two, but at first he refused to become king, perhaps attempting to show his piety and probably hoping that the other nobles would insist upon his election anyway.